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Born right into a music family (her dad was a conductor, her mom a pianist and vocal trainer), Kirsten Flagstad studied music from an early on age and produced her debut even though still students as Nuri in d’Albert’s Tiefland in 1913. For the next 18 years, she sang just …

Fourteen years younger than Danish heldentenor Lauritz Melchior, Set Svanholm moved into a lot of the same repertory in the 1940s, making himself a lot more vital that you companies offering huge measures of Wagner. Rather than Melchior’s enormous physical existence, Svanholm provided a very much slighter appearance. His slim …

Blessed Claire McLamore in NEW YORK, this lyric/dramatic soprano attained her most significant successes in European countries, particularly in Munich where she was a revered existence even after pension. In creating a profession, she had to fight opposition from her initial husband, a health care provider of biophysics, who was …

The elder from the famous Konetzni sisters — both opera singers — from Vienna, Anny Konetzni was created in 1902. Though in old age, she specifically sang soprano tasks, Anny Konetzni started her career like a contralto. She was raised inside a musical family members and then visited the Vienna …

Given birth to Jean Browning in Central Illinois, this contralto established for herself one identification among singers from the deepest, darkest assignments for female tone of voice. High and strikingly appealing, she possessed both physical and vocal allure for Carmen and made a riveting family portrait of Klytemnestra, both addled …